October 11, 2014
Growing The Burnett remains a focus of study for the University of Sydney, despite the fact the social enterprise is still looking for a new farm.
Student Stephanie Dunk is in the final year of a Masters program at the uni and has just spent a week in Kingaroy with her family to work with Growing The Burnett (GTB) committee members to help them develop a plan for its future direction.
This is the second time that students from the Remote and Rural Enterprise (RARE) program have worked with GTB.
Stephanie said she had been helping to develop an action plan as well as continuing her research into the growth of a social enterprise.
GTB is is one of several case studies she is working on.
GTB organiser Brian Jarvis said Stephanie was developing a paper that would enable the committee to work on projects that would aim to take away the group’s reliance on government funding.
Brian said he hoped a new project would be unveiled after the group’s AGM, which will be held on October 27.
“Out belief from Day 1 has always been that if we are going to demonstrate sustainability and self-reliance, our organisation also has to be self-sustainable,” Brian said.
Stephanie said a first draft of the plan had already been completed but there would be more work done on this ahead of the AGM.
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